Description
Firmware for a lawn robot sold for home use from 2000, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Deposited by Marcombe Computer Heritage Centre. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. All files were recovered; 55 damaged sectors were rebuilt from redundant data.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
615ee2984957be373c51a54a7ff5eaa7f75011480c0e690f0a769a7ed44e8505- Last verified
- Oct 10, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ROBOT-2 · lz-mcu core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ROBOT-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on household robots.
Cite as: Tandem Robotics, Tandem lawn robot: firmware 3.6 (2000). Lazarus Archive, LZ-02853.